ENGL 40237 - Romantic Revolutions: British Literature and Culture, 1790-1830

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course examines the various revolutions that reshaped British literature and culture between the 1790s and 1830s, chiefly in response to the French Revolution. We will explore a wide range of works in diverse genres as they address three major areas of interest: the rights of man and woman (including the rights of slaves); the scientific and industrial revolutions; and the development of a new aesthetics (including ideas about language, style, imagination, and the role of the writer). We will tend to study these works in pairs or clusters to highlight differences of approach and emphasize the importance of dialogue and debate to Romantic creativity-the many ways that writers responded to each other and to their cultural and historical circumstances. The best-known poets of the age - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron - will figure alongside some of their most innovative and influential contemporaries, including Edmund Burke, Tom Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, John Thelwall, Charlotte Smith, William Hazlitt, and Mary Shelley. The course will take stock of key critical perspectives on these writers while honing your skills in analysis and argumentation. Instances of contemporary visual art and propaganda will help broaden our understanding of this profoundly revolutionary period in British literature and culture.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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